Liberal Democrat Candidate Sanjay Samani for Angus North and Mearns has revealed that 102,500 in Aberdeenshire and 53,200 people in Angus will pay reduced income tax\u00a0from April this year, thanks to the Liberal Democrat-led increase in the personal tax allowance.<\/p>\n
In addition, over 2,500 people in Aberdeenshire and 1,560 people in the Angus will\u00a0not pay ANY<\/strong> income tax.<\/p>\n Liberal Democrats in the UK Government will be increasing the personal tax allowance to \u00a310,000, meaning no-one will pay any tax on the first \u00a310,000 they earn. \u00a0The allowance will rise by \u00a31,000 this April, with a further \u00a3600 rise next April, as just announced in the UK budget.<\/p>\n Commenting, Sanjay Samani, said:<\/p>\n “Thanks to the Liberal Democrats, over 4,000 people across Angus, Mearns and Aberdeenshire will not pay any income tax and more than 155,000 people will pay much less than they did before.”<\/p>\n \u201cLiberal Democrats promised at last year\u2019s General Election to increase the personal allowance.\u00a0 I am proud that my colleagues in\u00a0Westminster\u00a0are delivering on that promise.”<\/p>\n \u201cLabour put an incredible income tax burden on the poorest in society.\u00a0 It is not fair that people on the lowest incomes paid so much of their income in tax. “<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Montrose councillor \u00a0David May added,<\/p>\n \u201cLiberal Democrats have put money into the pockets of Montrose families.”<\/p>\n \u201cIn just 11 months, 54,760 people in Angus have benefited from Liberal Democrats in Government.\u00a0\u00a0This figure will now increase as the tax system gets fairer under Liberal Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Stonehaven councillor Peter Bellarby added,<\/p>\n \u201cLiberal Democrats are delivering on their promise to help residents in Stonehaven, Laurencekirk and Mearns.”<\/p>\n \u201cOver 105,000 people in Aberdeenshire will gain from April thanks to Liberal Democrats in Government.\u00a0\u00a0The number who will benefit will rise again next year with the further increase in the allowance and more, year on year through the lifetime of the Coalition Government.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a new tax year round the corners, thousands of people in Angus, Mearns, Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire will benefit from the increase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[65,96],"tags":[147,194,148,220,113,149,200],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VHxS-6P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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